This is an opinion piece from the Ithaca Voice which is related to development. The author is a fellow SSPer whom I met up with while he was attending Cornell. Great guy, and I'm thankful to say he is as interested in Ithaca development as myself.
As noted in post #476 above, Ithaca lost out to Owego in a competition for a $10,000,000 state grant to improve downtown. Seems the city may have lost out on some of the over $250 million more in proposed developments. From the Ithaca Voice: